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  • What a fun factoid with no lessons for the modern day!

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  • Secessio is a great start to a proud history of workers fighting for their rights, but history tends to clean up the details.

    I always wonder how many scabs stayed back in Rome.

  • Pope Leo calls for Venezuela to remain an independent country

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  • If you're really into Catholic lore and mythology, then yes, the Pope's word holds a lot of weight. They believe in papal infallibility, which means that when the Pope meets certain very specific criteria, he is literally speaking for God and is thus perfect and unquestionable.

    Regular normie Catholics? They believe in the Pope the same way they believe in the Bible: it is the true word of God, but it's too much of a bother to actually read it. They're never reading papal edicts, they're just reading news headlines about the pope like everyone else.

  • Anyone in the U.S. also feeling extra suicidal after hearing the news today?

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  • Suicidal thoughts in response to this news is really concerning. From what I understand, you aren't being personally affected by this news. Go take care of yourself. Touch grass or do whatever you need to do.

    I think it will help to have a broader perspective. The US spends over $1 trillion each year on violence. When the bombs stop, then profits drop, and this is not acceptable to the capitalist class. When we stopped spending $60bln in Afghanistan, we instantly started spending $60bln in Ukraine. Now Ukraine is winding down, we will spend it on Venezuela. After that, Panama? Greenland? Cuba? Mexico? This cycle will continue until the military industrial complex is dismantled. That is unlikely to happen in our lifetimes.

    You are on the ethically correct side, and that matters. I find inspiration in the many generations of people who fought against slavery in the US. So many people, so many generations fought to end slavery, and most did not live to see the successful end. We must continue to fight, even if we do not see success in our lifetimes, we lay the groundwork for future generation's success. We owe it to them.

    And if you do choose to end yourself, I respect your bodily autonomy, but please make sure you are of sound mind when you make that very serious decision. And consider following in the holy footsteps of Saint Luigi of Baltimore.

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  • Perry Bible Fellowship is not low effort, newspaper quality, nor rage bait.

    Maybe OP is a repost bot or plant or whatever, but PBF is a top-tier internet comic.

  • US will be ‘strongly involved’ in Venezuela oil industry, Trump says after Caracas attacked and Maduro captured | Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves

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  • The Iraq War didn't end when we killed Saddam, that was really only the beginning.

  • Trump’s Attack on Venezuela Is Illegal and Unwise

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  • Why would they sell? US bonds are welfare for rich people; it's a guaranteed solid ROI that underwrites their riskier investments.

    I think it would take a crash of the global financial system to fundamentally change the logic of the bond market. We haven't seen a crash that devastating since WWII.

  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • CNN team witnesses multiple explosions in Venezuela’s capital Caracas | CNN

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  • You're really begging for downvotes with this comment, but I'm curious: how do you see this situation playing out? Do you think a couple steps ahead, or just react?

    My guess is that is going to go like this:

    1. Trump admin tries to install Machado as US puppet government in Venezuela.
    2. Mass popular uprising from the Venezuelan people, significant violence, attempts at deposing or assassinating Machado.
    3. US boots on the ground to prop up Machado regime. -or-
    4. US abandons Venezuela project, leaving devastation and chaos behind.
    5. Inevitable blowback, Americans killed.
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    As Israel bans aid orgs in Gaza, notorious mercenary firm seeks "Targeter"

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  • MBFC

    Do you have a less biased or more credible source for this fact check?

    The Grayzone is worthy of valid criticism, but MBFC does not provide valid criticism, it is rightwing propaganda.

  • Supreme Court Justice (Brett Kavanaugh) tries and fails to 'walk-back' ruling on 'Kavanaugh stops'

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  • Having a disease named after you must be a real pain in the kirk.

  • Facing Worlds, the iconic Unreal Tournament map

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  • Facing Worlds has to be one of the most defense-favored maps in CTF history.

    So difficult to to breach into the enemy's fort, only a couple paths home, no cover, high prevalence of snipers.

    In order to score, your team had to have full map control.

  • ‘I don’t think we should have billionaires’: mayor Zohran Mamdani in his own words

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  • Because in US politics, we generally have three types of politicians: MAGA, corporate Republicans, and corporate Democrats.

    Mamdani represents a possible fourth way, a way that (hopefully) values workers over capital.

    When he says "billionaires shouldn't exist" he is re-affirming his commitment to this fourth way, and that is a important positive sign.

  • let's learn about wage theft

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  • I'll be the pedantic one here and say it: Big Bird is wrong here, this is not wage theft.

    Wage theft is unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, unpaid benefits, tip theft, etc.

    If Big Bird is a Marxist, he should describe this type of theft as surplus labor value.

    Or if Big Bird is a capitalist, he would just call it profit.

  • Do billionaires have most of their income taxed as ordinary income or capital gains?

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  • I think most billionaires are not paying either of those taxes in any significant amounts.

    Most follow the buy borrow die method. Then their children just have to pay estate tax.

    Advanced tax cheats like Bill Gates take it one step further by creating their own charities. You give all your money to the "charity" and give your kids full control of the "charity". This way you can avoid paying estate tax, and you only need to give away a tiny percentage of your wealth to actual charities and PR firms to save face.

  • What Americans in a 1998 poll expected to happen by the year 2025

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  • Coffee is a diuretic, it is beneficial to the kidneys and hard on the stomach.

    A large percentage of cats die from kidney issues, not many die from stomach issues. So coffee is good for cats makes sense imo.

  • Sounds interesting

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  • The leaders of the New Atheist movement are not heroes; they are certainly imperfect. I agree with all of your criticisms, but you say nothing of the bulk of their work.

    Hitchens' God is Not Great will stand the test of time; his Islamophobia will not.

    Dawkins' The God Delusion is still correct, despite his late-in-life transphobia and "cultural Christianity".

  • Trump says US 'hit' dock in Venezuela, marking first known land attack

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